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Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of ImmunityCovid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling,

Emily Cureton

emilycureton

THREAD: A week after Deschutes County helped lead the the charge to reopen Oregon, an outbreak of new COVID-19 cases is testing the public health system’s ability to track and

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

My view of Macron has gone up about 20 fold in the past few days. I think he and the French, for all their faults, are one of the few

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stephendoss

1) I-Medik would like to express our disagreement and regretted the statement made by Dato Dr Musa Nordin in which the Director of General (DG), Dato Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah

alan drummond

alandrummond2

Lessons learned will prove crucial in controlling a second wave of COVID-19The intervention that proved far more important was universal masking – requiring all hospital staff to wear surgical masks

Khandani Msibi

KhandaniM

Locking down of the SA economy was not a wise move, it was a response of an unprepared state that takes instructions, not advice. This strategy is a poison pill

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Quarter of people may already be immune to coronavirus..I’m delighted that mainstream newspapers are picking up on ‘prior immunity’. It’s a lot more than 25%, arguably >50%. 1st paper MID-APRIL!!

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

Dear @WHO,When you announce there are 1 million #COVID19 cases, please can you make it clear that the actual number of infections may be closer to 100 million.Estimates here (Imperial

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

South Dakota vs Vermont: 2 small states w big differences-SD: heartless/headless— governor & Hosp ceo say masks are just symbols, no actions-VT: heart & head— found hotels for homeless, pay

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Whatever the UK Gov #COVID19 strategy might be, mass testing for infection only works together with 'contact tracing' in the early stages of an outbreak, and not in the face

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

As the NYT reported in an article you’ve probably read:“up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus”Most correctly interpet this as evidence of the “Casedemic” being

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/15) Updated thread on children and #COVID19, summarising recent studies.Summary: both child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission has occurred; cases in children are being missed. #edutwitter #Schulen #Kinder #kinderen (2/15) First, a

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Rampant #COVID spread in a kids camp: a preview of school re-opening?New paper with unsettling details that unfortunately challenges claims that transmission in young children will be lower than adults.More

Venugopalan Govindan

gvenugopalan

#COVID19 Facts so far.1. Once a country is infected, many other countries stop flights to them. But then some still ply flights and it's always possible that through that country

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

9/22 Weekly http://covid19-projections.com Update:We forecast 23,000 (13-38k) additional reported deaths in the US by November 1 (~600/day).Nov 1 Total Deaths Forecasts:Today: 223k (213-238k)Last week: 219k (208-233k)2 weeks ago: 219k

Thomas P. Bossert

TomBossert

The theme here is wrongheaded. The guy quoted is looking at hospitalizations “every day.” That’s not enough. Lag and delay are hard concepts for people to understand, but future planning